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August 2023

August 25, 2023
In his treatise "On Temporal Authority," Luther argues that the state should not punish heretics...
August 25, 2023
Today's main post is about Luther's opposition to the state's attempt to stamp out heresy...
August 24, 2023
Hospitality is a Biblical virtue, but the deconstructionist Jacques Derrida has turned "pure hospitality" into...
August 23, 2023
A common value expressed today--in corporations, schools, regulators, and churches--is "inclusion."  But, as Tal Fortgang...
August 22, 2023
Jonathan Edwards is best known for his hair-raising fire and brimstone sermon "Sinners in the...
August 21, 2023
Trump's 91 felony charges, hybrid genders, and 22 states outlaw sex change surgeries for children. 
August 18, 2023
The decline in church attendance is not just due to young people.  Large numbers of...
August 18, 2023
Have any of you experienced church burnout?  How did you deal with that?
August 17, 2023
Dorothy L. Sayers was a Christian apologist, a great translator and guide to Dante, and...
August 16, 2023
As I was trying to think through the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms and the...
August 15, 2023
Jacob Howland has written a searing critique of our times entitled "America is now a zombie...
August 14, 2023
Successes in combating porn, voters in red states still want abortion, and U. S. bonds...
August 11, 2023
A former high-level intelligence official told a congressional committee that he has classified evidence that...
August 11, 2023
Ron DeSantis has been attacking Donald Trump from the right, saying that Trump is too...
August 10, 2023
David Brooks takes to task his fellow Ivy League-educated professionals who have formed a new...
August 09, 2023
David Brooks has created a stir with a NYT column entitled "What If We're the...
August 08, 2023
We've blogged about "National Conservativism" and its manifesto. Now the other kind of conservatism, the...
August 07, 2023
The American Academy of Pediatrics will revisit "gender affirmation care"; Republican candidates hide their church, while...
August 04, 2023
The one theological virtue that is still in favor today is love. According to Peter...
August 04, 2023
A pundit has said, "If AI can produce series, movies, or political-economy-related op-eds more cheaply...
August 03, 2023
The word "secular" today means having nothing to do with religion.  But the term came...
August 02, 2023
As Hollywood flounders, faith-based films are flourishing. Now some big studios and big directors are...
August 01, 2023
The Providing for Life Act would greatly expand the COVID-era child tax credit into a...

July 2023

July 31, 2023
Mocking a survey is defined as fascism, a tale of two Supreme Courts, and a...
July 28, 2023
Much of the general public are down on the concept of "organized religion."  They are...
July 28, 2023
Michael Brendan Dougherty says we are living in an upside-down world, giving examples from religion...
July 27, 2023
A refrain throughout the Bible is that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves....
July 26, 2023
Catholic theologian Thomas Harmon draws parallels between the ways the devil tempts us and the...
July 25, 2023
Today people claim to be "spiritual but not religious."  Even many religious people seek to...
July 24, 2023
Hollywood and Big Media are in a state of crisis over falling revenue, a writers...
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